OBITUARY: Susan Elizabeth Hamilton, 27 January 1887 - Smith County, TX Submitted by Vicki Betts 1 January 2003 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************************** TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, June 2, 1887, p. 7, c. 3 HAMILTON.—The subject of this sketch, Susan Elizabeth Hamilton, nee Smith, was born October 18, 1850, and died in the bosom of her family, near Omen, Smith county, Texas, January 27, 1887. She married R. W. Hamilton December 10, 1867, and joined the M. E. Church, South, in 1870. In the fall of 1885 she had an attack of pleuro-pneumonia, which turned into consumption, from the effects of which she died. She was the mother of eight children, seven of whom survive her. She also raised two children of her husband's by a former wife. Her piety was seen in her life rather than in formal professions. She was one of those quiet, unassuming Christians, whose light shines with unmistakable brightness. During the last eighteen months of her life, spent in affliction, she showed her consecration to God and her reconciliation to her fate. Her truthfulness was remarkable. During her last sickness she told her husband that she had not knowingly told a falsehood during her whole life. When but little over sixteen years of age she, by marriage, became the mother of two step-children, and she had the good sense to take these as her own, and consequently they loved her as a mother. We mingle our tears with those of the bereaved family, but we sorrow not as those who have no hope. W. A. Sampey.